post obitum
"post-obitum" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“post obitum” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - After death.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | post obitum |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “post obitum” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
post obitum is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "After death.".
post obitum doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin post obitum. The correct English form is post obitum, spelled P-O-S-T- -O-B-I-T-U-M.
Definition
- 1After death.
Etymology
From Latin post obitum.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “post obitum”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-O-S-T- -O-B-I-T-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.